Sully’s Roast Beef and Smoked Meats has opened at 3548 Novalea (493-5141) in the little strip mall around the corner from the Lawton’s at the intersection of “don’t put a traffic circle here!” and Duffus Street. Word is, the meat is tops.
Tim Bousquet
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Hali Deli takes over Cousins space
Lat week we discussed the exciting restaurant scene that’s unfolding along Agricola Street near North Street. Now comes word of another new offering just a couple of blocks south at 2389 Agricola Street, between Harris and West Streets, where Victor Fineberg, is opening the Hali Deli Old World Delicatessen “in about three weeks.”. The deli […]
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Wooden Monkey to open second location in Dartmouth
The Wooden Monkey just tweeted: The Wooden Monkey @TheWoodenMonkey Here’s the news…the Monkey will be opening a 2nd location in Dartmouth, we are taking over the MacAskills location, we are beyond excited! I’ll talk to owner Lil MacPherson just as soon as I can, and update this post with details.
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Early voting totals
For early and electronic voting totals, by district, as of 3pm today, click here.
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The change you seek
@huskermould: Hell, it’s not Peter Kelly. What else you got? This election season, there’s a lot of talk about leadership, vision and, above all, inspiration, especially when it comes to our new mayor. People seem to be expecting a man who will lead them out of the woods, a larger-than-life character who will validate the […]
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Wooing the vote: Landlords lobby for Sue Uteck
There’s a very large social component to elections that is fun to explore. People talk to each other. They notice who has a certain yard sign in the front yard. They form opinions based on what the people canvassing for a candidate is wearing. They ask their friends, their workmates, their drinking partners, their newspaper […]
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Mr. Smith goes to City Hall
Somehow, inadvertently on my part, my relationship with Bruce E. Smith, a candidate in the District 12 (Timberlea – Beechville – Clayton Park West) council race, started off on the wrong foot and careened downward from there. As I recall, this began when I wrote something referring to Smith as “Bruce Smith.” He emailed or […]
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Mr. Bacon!
A glaring hole in the local retail scene has been the absence of a candy store on the Dartmouth side of the harbour. But no longer! Just in time for Halloween, Stacey Campbell has opened Sugar Shok Candy Boutique, a candy-, gift-, card-, partly supply- novelty-shop at 117 Portland Street (880-0660). Besides traditional candy she […]
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Lower Deck moves into Clayton Park
The folks at The Lower Deck have bought the former Winston’s Pub in the Clayton Park shopping centre (278 Lacewood Drive). Not ones to mess around with a successful formula, the name of the new place will be “The Lower Deck Bar & Grill.” The Deck’s Mike Condy tells us that the bar remains open […]
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Bowles on ice
Bowles Arena is a 40-year-old city-owned rink on a hill in the industrial area behind Dartmouth General Hospital. While aged, the facility is clean and in good shape, with newly painted bleachers and well-maintained ice. What Bowles Arena isn’t, however, is used, at least during weekday hours. While the physical plant runs all day to […]
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Agricola Street becoming resto hub
Ludovic Eveno, who has worked as a chef in France and locally at Bish and its reincarnation, The Bicycle Thief (Bishop’s Landing, 425-7993), has purchased the building at 2540 Agricola Street, just across from the liquor store at the corner of Charles Street. He intends to open a restaurant in the space next spring, taking […]
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Bleak Blowers
A couple of weeks back, Cadence Macmichael closed her Pretty Things Boutique, citing frustration with city policies around street construction and other issues. The incident raises the question: Is Blowers Street the next Barrington Street? Remember the hue and cry when Barrington Street storefronts were papered over, how it was all the fault of city […]